Scott Dunbar is an associate professor in the Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering at the University of British Columbia. His recent work on biomining was highlighted in UBC Reports a few months ago – “The virus that binds: A novel idea marries biology and mining”
You can see much of the biomining research in the Web of Science database (for UBC folks, here is the direct link to the appropriate search )
** photo by Martin Dee